"Once You Vote Black..."
09/10/2012
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Paul Kersey mentioned this hard-to-find-political souvenir at the DNC: it says "Once You Vote Black You Never Go Back."

Once You Vote Black

David Graham blogs at the Atlantic:

This button doesn't appear to be official merchandise, but a street vendor was hawking it at CarolinaFest, an outdoor Labor Day celebration in downtown Charlotte (which is confusingly called "Uptown") on Monday. The sentiment is a little controversial — when I tweeted it Monday, some conservative tweeps were up in arms — and would eliminate many of the top contenders for the Democrats' 2016 nomination...Charlotte Swag: 'Once You Vote Black You Never Go Back', September  4, 2012
It sounds to me unpleasantly reminiscent of the saying about politics in Africa:"One Man, One Vote—Once!"
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